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Hello everybody, my name is Mónica. I am your teacher of English and today we are going to

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look at the past perfect in English. We will see how to form it and how to and when to use it.

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First we are going to look at the form of this tense. You have to, here at the bottom,

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and you have the form and at first this ha had which is the auxiliary verb is in

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the past okay and it's always gonna stay the same it's not going to change so it

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will always be had for all the persons I you he she etc and then the past

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participle of the main verb now we are going to look at some examples but before we look at the

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examples which are here there is something that you need to remember and is that if the verb is

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regular the past participle will end in ed but if it's irregular you have to go to the list of

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irregular verbs and then look at the third column and here you have two examples i had seen you and

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she had invited me to the party. Irregular and regular. How to use it? The use. When we have

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two verbs, one of them in a sentence, one of them is in the past simple and the other one is in the

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past perfect, the action that takes place, that is the first one to happen, is the one with the

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past perfect okay when the police here you have some examples when the police arrived

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the feed had escaped or you can say it the other way around you can start with the um

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the past perfect and then the past simple okay and the action that happens the first that that

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is happening uh the first is the one with the the past perfect we can also use these adverbs

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with the past perfect already still just ever or never and also we can use before

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and here you have some examples of these adverbs used in in sentences with the past perfect

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okay these are the exercises that i would like you to do on this page okay you have to click

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on this link and go to this page and finally a recap when we use it for an action that happens

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before another action in the past simple okay and we can just remember that we can also use them

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in the conditional sentences the third type if i had known you were coming i would have come too

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okay here you have the past perfect and that's all for today bye